USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A vast area of the South Plains, including much of North, Central, and West Texas, soon became Comanche country, or Comanchería.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Comanche started to spread throughout present-day eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Oklahoma, and north western Texas in 1720, and they lived between the Platte River headwaters and the Kansas River by 1724.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shoshone speakers, including proto-Comanches, probably moved to the Northern Plains in the sixteenth century. In the late seventeenth century the proto-Comanches began a southward movement, and by the early eighteenth century, if not before, they were in contact with the Spaniards of New Mexico.

Detailed explanation-4: -Comanche, self-name Nermernuh, North American Indian tribe of equestrian nomads whose 18th-and 19th-century territory comprised the southern Great Plains. The name Comanche is derived from a Ute word meaning “anyone who wants to fight me all the time.” The Comanche had previously been part of the Wyoming Shoshone.